39 fighters just slid from B-tier down to P-tier — the Potato basement, the worst tier on SaltyBet — over the last 30 days.[1] That is the biggest B→P drop we have logged yet: 27 in April, 32 in May, and now 39. The pattern keeps growing.
But here is the part that made us stop and write it up: several of the fighters who fell to the bottom tier have winning lifetime records. Cci mr.big sits on a 73.3% win rate; Insane ikisan is at 72.2%. Both got shuffled down to Potato anyway.[1] So before you read “P-tier” as “these fighters are trash,” let us complicate that — because tier is not the same thing as skill.
The headline. 39 fighters got demoted from B-tier to P-tier this month, the largest B→P slide in our running series. But a chunk of them are winning 60–73% of their fights — proof that a SaltyBet tier is about placement and activity, not a pure ranking of who wins.
Quick refresher for anyone new here (skip ahead if you basically live on the channel).
SaltyBet sorts every fighter into one of five tiers, strongest at the top down to the bottom:
| Tier | What it means |
|---|---|
| X | The mountaintop. Rare, often broken “cheap” characters; the fattest pots. |
| S | Elite. Consistent, well-known heavy hitters, just below X. |
| A | The big competitive middle — where most active fighters live. |
| B | The proving ground. Newer or weaker characters, or ones on a cold streak. |
| P | Potato tier — the bottom. Broken or barely-functional fighters. Most never climb out. |
So a move from B to P is a step down — off the proving ground and into the basement. New to the tier vocabulary? Our SaltyBet glossary and tier list explainer spell out what each letter means for your Salty Bucks $$.
This is a running series for us — we tracked the same slide in April (27 fighters) and May (32 fighters). July’s 39 is the new high-water mark.
Here is a spread of the 39 — a mix of quiet winners and fighters who very much earned the drop:[1]
| Fighter | Matches | Lifetime win rate | The read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cci mr.big | 15 | 73.3% | Winning, dropped anyway |
| Insane ikisan | 18 | 72.2% | Winning, dropped anyway |
| Crash EX | 9 | 66.7% | Winning (tiny sample) |
| Zodiac | 19 | 63.2% | Winning, dropped anyway |
| Cvs axel | 18 | 61.1% | Winning, dropped anyway |
| Zabuza | 10 | 60.0% | Winning (tiny sample) |
| Hayato | 106 | 33.0% | Losing, drop earned |
| Cci jhun | 55 | 20.0% | Losing, drop earned |
| Cody mighty final fight | 20 | 10.0% | Cratering |
| Cloud | 14 | 7.1% | Cratering |
| Crane | 14 | 7.1% | Cratering |
| Chloe&maumau | 10 | 0.0% | Winless |
| Dante DMC4 | 8 | 0.0% | Winless |
A few names you’ll recognize took the slide too: Cloud (yes, that Cloud, of Final Fantasy VII), Dante DMC4 from Devil May Cry, Chewbacca, Zabuza from Naruto, Crono from Chrono Trigger, and Yashiro nanakase from The King of Fighters.[2] Big-name characters, Potato-tier records.
Yep. And that is the entire reason this one is interesting.
A demotion to P-tier does not mean a fighter has a losing record. Cci mr.big (73.3%), Insane ikisan (72.2%), Zodiac (63.2%), Cvs axel (61.1%), and a cluster hovering around 60% — Cold man, Haku, Zabuza, Chris, Crash EX — all dropped to Potato this window despite winning more than they lose across their lifetime.[1]
Meanwhile, plenty of the cohort is genuinely cratering: Chin hong kong 97, Chloe&maumau, and Dante DMC4 are all at 0%, and both Cloud and Crane sit at 7.1%.[1] Those are the fighters where the P-tier label fits like a glove.
Because SaltyBet tiers are not a leaderboard. Placement is driven by the community and the matchmaker — a blend of manual sorting, how a character behaves in a fight, and activity — not a clean win-rate ranking. A fighter can stack up wins and still get pushed to P.
And here is the honest caveat we have to wave a big flag over: most of these 39 are low-sample fighters. A bunch have single-digit or teens match counts, which means both their win rates AND their tier placement are noisy.[1] Cci mr.big’s 73.3% is across just 15 matches; Zabuza’s 60% is across 10. Fun to look at, nowhere near enough to bank on — as always, this is for funzies only. :)
The two fighters here with real history — Hayato (106 lifetime matches, 33%) and Cci jhun (55 matches, 20%) — actually carry losing records, which makes their drop look far more earned than the small-sample winners’ does.
They did — and this is the context that keeps the “SaltyBet is collapsing!” takes honest. In the same 30-day window, more fighters climbed P→B (47) than fell B→P (39).[1] The roster is churning both directions, with a net flow upward out of the basement.
Now, in the spirit of the transparency we pride ourselves on, one honest wrinkle: our companion piece, snapshotted a few days earlier, counted 60 fighters climbing out of Potato — not 47. Both numbers are real. They are just two readings of the same rolling 30-day window taken a few days apart, and these tier counts genuinely move that much week to week. That drift is the story — treat any single week’s tally as a snapshot, not a fixed law of nature.
This is not a tier apocalypse — it is normal turnover. We wrote up the reverse climb — the fighters clawing their way up out of Potato — in our companion piece on the P-to-B migration for July. Read them side by side for the full churn picture.
A few things, if you’re the type to squint at a tier badge before you throw Salty Bucks:
Where the edge is. A recently-demoted fighter with a winning record is one of the sneakier spots on the board. The badge says Potato; the results say otherwise; and the crowd is still arguing which to believe. Read past the badge and you’re a step ahead of the room — the same lesson our best and worst fighters in every SaltyBet tier breakdown keeps hammering.
Why did 39 fighters drop from B-tier to P-tier in SaltyBet?
SaltyTrack’s tier-mobility detector flagged 39 fighters whose matches shifted from mostly B-tier (the prior 30–90 days) to mostly P-tier (the last 30 days) — a one-step demotion to the worst tier. It is the biggest B→P batch in our running series (27 in April, 32 in May), though in the same window even more fighters (47) climbed the other way, P→B.[1]
If a fighter is winning, why did they fall to P-tier (Potato)?
Because SaltyBet tier placement reflects community and matchmaker decisions plus activity — not a pure win-rate ranking. Several demoted fighters, including Cci mr.big (73.3%) and Insane ikisan (72.2%), have winning lifetime records but still landed in P. Most are also low-sample, so their tier reading is noisy.[1]
Should you bet on fighters that just dropped to P-tier?
Sometimes — carefully. A demoted fighter with a winning record is often mispriced because the crowd anchors to the old tier. But most of these 39 have tiny match samples, so treat the win rates as fun signals, not locks. For funzies only.
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